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		<title>Say hello to the  Free Agent Learner—that is, a typical middle school student!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 19:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students are not waiting around for educators to provide a new type of environment for their learning. They are creating opportunities for themselves. Middle school students, in particular, view learning in new ways, often very different even from today’s high school students, who tend to use technology for more &#8220;traditional&#8221; tasks such as checking grades, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same Song, Second Verse</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/same-song-second-verse/2151.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Brooks-Young</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile technology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tablets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember The Prune Song? A camp classic, this silly ditty reviews the travails of life as a prune. The pleasure in singing the song comes from repeating over and over its first verse —“a little bit louder and a little bit worse!” A fun way for nine-year-olds to wile away the time perhaps, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education Technology Guidance</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/guidance/2135.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/guidance/2135.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Simkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology Planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I received an email from an aspiring administrator with the subject line &#8220;Education technology guidance.&#8221;  He wrote that as the &#8220;closest thing my school currently has to an Education Technologist,&#8221; he&#8217;s been tasked with writing a grant proposal for funding to help his school implement a blended learning environment.  He described his dilemma as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Push to the core with “Teaching Channel.”</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/teaching-channel/2112.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/teaching-channel/2112.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Marie Gonzales</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Models]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professional development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Core]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; We seem to now live in a world abuzz with the “Common Core,” and the resources are plentiful. Great problem to have, right? Wrong! Too many resources and so many require time to sift through for quality, applicability to our differing student populations, and then finding them later when we realize the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Principals in the Cross Hairs</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/principals-in-the-cross-hairs/2093.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/principals-in-the-cross-hairs/2093.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Simkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pondering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dilemmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Districts Tying Principal Reviews to Test Scores Survey Finds Rising Job Frustration Among Principals  These two headlines, both from Education Week, crossed my desk today.  It was a poignant and instructive juxtaposition.  I spent years studying (and experiencing) teacher burnout.  I found that lack of control (perceived, anyway) was closely associated with burnout.  The current research cited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tablet Isn’t a Silver Bullet</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/a-tablet-isnt-a-silver-bullet/2074.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Vaughn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know lots of people have mobile devices, and I know most of them wonder, &#8220;How did I ever live without this thing?&#8221;  I have my iPad and I like it, too; it’s a great tool.  Unfortunately, like other great tools, in the hands of the incompetent, it can be nothing more than an expensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blips not to overlook</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/blips-not-to-overlook/2025.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/blips-not-to-overlook/2025.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Butch Owens</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pondering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BYOD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distance learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flipped classrooms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Docs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PLC]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we venture forth into 2013, I thought it might be a good time to take a look at some items that should be on every administrator’s radar.  We all need to be developing a plan on how we will incorporate each into our schools. Learning Management Systems A learning management system (LMS) is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading the Tea Leaves in Tight Times</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/reading-the-tea-leaves-in-tight-times/2004.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/reading-the-tea-leaves-in-tight-times/2004.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Blackney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pondering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For school districts, this year could see the worst budget struggles in California&#8217;s history.  Most districts used up their reserves long ago; the rest have scant reserves left.  Districts have tapped categorical funds in historically-unprecedented ways.  One-time funds and the American Renewal and Reinvestment Act money have been expended.    Maintenance projects have been deferred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Twelve Days of Christmas, Reprise!</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/the-twelve-days-of-christmas-reprise/2000.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/the-twelve-days-of-christmas-reprise/2000.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 03:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Simkins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the twelfth day of Christmas technology gave me&#8230; Twelve bloggers blogging Eleven hackers hacking Ten jobs a-spooling Nine spammers spamming Eight files a-loading Seven disks formatting Six pics-ilating Five mp3&#8242;s Four session cookies Three flash drives Two open ports And a cartridge for my HP! Best wishes for a warm and peaceful holiday and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tech and the Arts Merge</title>
		<link>http://www.portical.org/blog/tech-and-the-arts-merge/1975.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.portical.org/blog/tech-and-the-arts-merge/1975.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Marie Gonzales</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cool tool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 4th Annual Arts Really Teach Conference was hosted last month by the Santa Clara County Office of Education, in collaboration with San Jose State University’s Lurie College of Education. For the second year, a smattering of offerings merging the arts and technology were offered, and these were well received by participants trying to meet [...]]]></description>
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